Hey the Simply Conference is coming up the first weekend in March. This is my favorite youth ministry conference because of the relationships that I have built over the years. I love how they give you time to connect and build relationships with other people. If you just to looked at the schedule you might [...]

This is a awesome blog post from my friend Phil Bell – I love the questions that he asks in this post and I love this thinking …. Posted on February 8, 2011 by youthworktalk A number of months ago one of our students was tragically killed in a car accident on his way to [...]

As church leaders we love meetings. We like to have meetings, we like to get together with people, and we like to talk about stuff we are thinking about doing. However, most meetings don’t really produce anything. They don’t improve our ministries, they don’t bring new insight to problems, and they don’t provide real change. [...]

I have a new book coming out soon dealing with the relationships between youth pastors and their senior pastors. It’s called The Disconnect. As I sat down to write this book, I’ll admit my time as a youth pastor steered much of my thinking about the subject matter. After all, it is my experiences, good and [...]